The Majestic World Of Terranova

Although James felt like a lot of hours had gone by, it was still pretty close to dusk.This was the magic that VR brought about, players were unable to keep track of time easily, meaning they could keep at it for a few hours and think a few days or a week had gone by.

By now, "Psycothic Faith"'s Faith Council was already starting to convene. Both "Brutal Faith"'s and "Blinding Faith"'s chase had ended up in failure. As such, they were both pretty damn pissed at how a single player managed to evade the whole Guild, especially when they had known he had to be pretty close by.

If they knew what James was up to, one couldn't even begin to imagine how envious they would be. One had to know that although Guilds mainly used numbers to fight eachother, it was a pretty important thing to keep a centralized group of strong experts.

The Faith Council was one such thing. In "Psycothic Faith", players that had the "Faith" suffix were the true core players of the Guild. To earn the right to be named as such, one had to previously contribute a lot to the Guild or be one of the main financial backers of the Guild.

It was now composed of five members, after "Brutal Faith" joined it. It was leaded by "Humble Faith", and then followed by "Blazing Faith", "Blinding Faith" , "Brazen Faith" and then "Brutal Faith". Their names weren't just for show, they were mostly a way of reflecting them personality wise.

"Psycothic Faith" had never gone through a life or death period, they had always laid low, and they had a bit of a backing due to "Humble Faith"'s family being rich. As such, their members had slowly grown more and more complacent.

"Hm, I hereby declare that the first Faith Council has started! Are there any pertinent situations that need answering right now?" - The one who spoke was their leader.

Everyone had been present during the Boss steal except for "Humble Faith". As such, he was the only one that had yet to know of what had happened.

When one said that their names described the personality of the people belonging to the Faith Council, they generally wouldn't be lying. "Brazen Faith" was a youthful member that had been promoted along with "Brutal Faith". They could be called the Sun and Moon of each other, as "Brazen Faith" was a cheerful teenager who always had a smile on his face, pure as the sun itself; "Brutal Faith" was the older brother, nearing his thirties, who almost never fought fair, and being brutal to his foes when needed.

"Yes, there has been an incident. There was a solo player that stole a Field Boss we were killing, apparently." - The one who spoke was "Brazen Faith". He was one of the few that had the face to keep smiling even when his boss got mad.

"Although we say stealing, all he did was get the last hit. He didn't take the Boss away nor did he not leave us no Experience or loot. In my opinion, it's better to study him first and see if he truly is a solo player before rising any problems with him.

"WHAT? Someone stole something from us? What's his name? Who does he think he is?"

Ah, there it is. Every member of the Faith Council was already expecting such an outcome. "Brazen" had already tried to mellow it a bit, but to no avail.

Just as said, their names reflected their personality. The only exception was the leader, as he was the typical brat who had been spoon-fed since birth. He was the complete opposite, a spoiled bastard who couldn't take a no for an answer.

"His name is "Blind Dreamcatcher", a Warrior. Although as soon as we got the notice of the stolen Boss we started looking for him, we still haven't found him yet. We have also stationed people at the few entrances of Fallen Oak Town to see if he would comeback. He hasn't yet been seen."

"Humble Faith" started fuming.

"Even if we haven't been able to catch him, atleast give a "Kill-on-sight" message to the players of our "Psycothic Faith"'s Guild. No one can stand in my path to glory in Terranova!"

"Although we haven't seen "Blind Dreamcatcher", there was a Rogue working with him, who we have already killed and gotten answers from. Apparently, "Blind Dreamcatcher" went offline a few minutes after our chase started"

Although Marcus didn't mean to rat out James, he had already been killed countless times. Although he wouldn't lose Experience as he had already been killed back to Level 0, he would still feel the pain from getting killed everytime. One thing that Terranova didn't enable was a Pain Limitor. Every time you got a cut, you'd feel pain as if you'd been cut. One could only imagine the torture Marcus had went through, seeing as he had lasted for a few hours. To make things worse, "Psycothic Faith"'s Priest resurrected him every time, so he didn't manage to get back to a city.

What they didn't know was that James had not logged out, he had only entered a zone which cut off communications, which made it look like he was indeed offline.

"That being said, I conclude this evening's Faith Council. Should one of you get "Blind Dreamcatcher", I will reward you personally."

The reactions to this announcement were mixed, as some looked thrilled to catch "Blind Dreamcatcher" and both "Brutal" and "Brazen" only thought James had not gone too overboard and only needed a slight roughing up.

What "Humble Faith" didn't know, was that as soon as his Guild had spawn-killed* Marcus, his Guild was already on a future hit-list. Being on that hit-list would be the nightmare for future top tier Guilds, not to mention a simple one such as "Psycothic Faith".

-- Back at The Gods Council --

James had a foreboding feeling that if he took any longer, something bad would end up happening to Marcus. As such, he steeled himself and grasped "Blood-Seeker" and what followed would change James's future forever...